This poem is taken from PN Review 57, Volume 14 Number 1, September - October 1987.
PoemsTheir Rectitude Their Beauty
'The angels rejoice in
the excellencies of God;
the inferior creatures in
His goodness; sinners only
in His forgiveness.'
His polar oppositions;
the habitable zones,
His clemencies; and
His smiling divagations,
uncovenanted mercies,
who turned the hard rock into a standing water
and the flint-stone into a springing well.
The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the
righteous;
my eyes are running with rheum
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